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The Aristotelian Curriculum in Arabic and Hebrew 1 The Aristotelian Curriculum (Excluding Mathematics) In Arabic and Hebrew (occasionally also Greek, Syriac, Persian, Latin) Handout for “Aristotle in the Middle Ages,” James Robinson, U. Chicago, Winter 2013 General background: Christina d’Ascona, “Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy,” Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy Online: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-greek/ M. Zonta, “The Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought,” Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-judaic/ Dag Hasse, “The Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West,” Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-influence/ Tony Street, “Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic,” Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-language/ J. McGinnis, “Arabic and Islamic Natural Philosophy and Natural Science,” Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-natural/ Alfred Ivry, “Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-mind/ Amos Bertolacci, “Arabic and Islamic Metaphysics,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arabic-islamic-metaphysics/ Useful Resources: Arist. semitico-latinus: http://www.brill.com/publications/aristoteles-semitico-latinus Online dictionary of Arabic philosophical terms: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/dict Hans Daiber Bibliography: http://books.google.co.il/books/about/Bibliography_of_Islamic_Philosophy_Alpha.html?i d=kIPEsRIl7owC&redir_esc=y Th.-A. Druart Bibliography: http://philosophy.cua.edu/Faculty/tad/ [end of the page] Averroes Database: http://www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/11620.html Islamic philosophy online has useful sites on al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, etc., with many downloadable texts and pdfs: http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ 2 INTRODUCTIONS GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS TO ARISTOTLE AND THE CURRICULUM Nicolaus Damascenus: Philosophy of Aristotle, Syriac fragments ed. and trans. H. J. Drossaart Lulofs (Brill, 1969). Prolegomena to the Study of Aristotle’s Philosophy [Risāla fī-mā yanbaghī an yuqaddama qabla ta‘allum al-falsafa]. Ed. and German trans. F. Dieterici, Al-Fārābī’s philosophische Abhandlungen (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1890), pp. 49-55; Hebrew trans. edited M. Zonta, La “Classificazione delle scienze” di Al-Fārābī nella tradizione ebraica. Torino, 1992. Al-Kindī, Risāla fī kammiyyat kutub Arisṭūṭālīs (“On the Quantity of Aristotle’s Books”). Rasā’il al-Kindī al-falsafiyya, ed. Abū Rīdāh (Cairo, 1950), pp. 363-384; English translation in Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann, The Philosophical Works of al-Kindī (Oxford, 2012). Al-Fārābī, Enumeration of the Sciences [Iḥṣā’ al-‘ulūm]. Ed. U. Amin (Cairo, 1968); Ed. with Latin and Spanish trans., A. Gonzalez Palencia. Catalogo de las ciencias (Madrid, 1953); Hebrew trans. by Qalonymus b. Qalonymus, ed. with Italian trans., M. Zonta, La “Classificazione delle scienze” di Al-Fārābī nella tradizione ebraica (Torino, 1992); French trans. by I. Mansour, Enumeration des sciences ou classification des sciences (Beirut, 1991); partial English translations: A. Jaffray, “At the Threshold of Philosophy: A Study of al-Fārābī’s Introductory Works on Logic” (PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000), pp. 384-400 (=logic); partial translation F. M. Najjar, in Medieval Political Philosophy, pp. 24-30 (=political philosophy); partial translation by C. Butterworth, The Political Writings of Alfarabi (Cornell, 2001), pp. 76-84 (=political philosophy). Al-Fārābī, The Philosophy of Aristotle [Falsafat Arisṭū]. Ed. M. Mahdi (Beirut, 1961); trans. M. Mahdi, in Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (Cornell University Press, 1969): http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/books/farabi-pl-aris.pdf Al-Fārābī, Exhortation to the Path of Happiness [Kitāb al-tanbīh ‘alā sabīl al-sa‘āda]. Ed. J. Al-Yasin (Beirut, 1985); Ed. S. Khalifat (Amman, 1987); French trans. D. Mallet, in Fārābī —Deux Traites (Damascus, 1989); English trans. A. Jaffray, “At the Threshold of Philosophy: A Study of al-Fārābī’s Introductory Works on Logic” (PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000), pp. 401-30. Al-Fārābī, Utterances Used in Logic [Kitāb al-alfāẓ al-musta‘mala fī al-manṭiq]. Ed. M. Mahdi (Beirut, 1968; 2nd ed. Teheran, 1983); Persian trans. Hassan Malekshahi (Tehran 1998); English trans. A. Jaffray, “At the Threshold of Philosophy: A Study of al-Fārābī’s Introductory Works on Logic” (PhD diss., Harvard University, 2000), pp. 431-517. 3 Avicenna, Maqāla fī aqsām al-‘ulūm al-‘aqliyya. In Tis‘ rasā’il (Istanbul, 1881); partial trans. Muhsin Mahdi, in Medieval Political Philosophy, pp. 74-76; modern Hebrew trans. in Steve Harvey, ed. Ibn Sina Anthology. Maimonides, Treatise on the Art of Logic, ed. I. Efros, Maimonides’ Treatise on Logic: The Original Arabic and Three Hebrew Translations (New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1938); complete Arabic edition: Mubahat Türker, Mûsâ Ibn-i Meymûn’un al-Maḳāla fī ṣınā‘at al-manṭıḳ ının arapça aslı (Ankara, 1961); additional fragments: Israel Efros, “Maimonides’ Arabic treatise on logic,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 34 (1966), pp. 269-273 (English), pp. 9-42 (Arabic); French translation Rémy Brague, Traité de logique (Paris, 1996); new edition with modern Hebrew translation Yosef Qafih, Be’ur melekhet ha-higgayon (Qiryat Ono, 1997). ENCYCLOPEDIC COMPENDIA Al-Farabi’s short treatises on logic and Averroes’ epitomes (both listed below by Aristotelian book) could fit in this category. See also: Avicenna, Kitāb al-najāt. Ed. M.S. al-Kurdī. Cairo, 1938. The logic translated by Asad Ahmed: Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011); psychology translated by F. Rahman: Avicenna’s Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952). Avicenna, Danesh Nameh Alai. The logic section trans. as: Avicenna’s Treatise on Logic, Part One of Danesh-Name Alai, trans. Farhang Zabeeh (The Hague, 1971): http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/books/dansh.pdf. The metaphysics section as: The ‘Metaphysica’ of Avicenna. A critical translation-commentary and analysis of the fundamental arguments in Avicenna's ‘Metaphysica’ in the ‘Dānish Nāma-i ʿalāʿī’ [The Book of Scientific Knowledge], P. Morewedge (London 1973); the physics in the unpublished dissertation: Jamila Jauhari, “The Physics of Avicenna” (PhD diss., Fordham University, 1988). Avicenna, Kitāb al-ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt. Ed. Sulayman Dunyā. 2nd ed. Cairo, 1971, 4 vols. [logic, physics, metaphysics, Sufism]; English trans. of part I, logic, by Shams Inati: http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/books/inati1.pdf; translation of part IV, Sufism, also by Shams Inati: http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/books/inati2.pdf al-Ghazālī, Maqāṣid al-falāsifa. Ed. S. Dunya (Cairo, 1961). Hebrew trans. of the logical section, with commentary by Moses Narboni, ed. and trans. Gershon Chertoff, “The Logical Part of al-Ghazālī’s Maqāṣid al-Falāsifa, In an anonymous Hebrew translation with the Hebrew commentary of Moses of Narbonne” (PhD diss., Columbia University, 1952); there were three medieval Hebrew translations: by Isaac Albalag, Judah Nathan and Anonymous. For Albalag see Georges Vajda, Isaac Albalag, averroïste juif, 4 traducteur et annoteur d’al-Ghazali (Paris: J. Vrin, 1960); Sefer Tiqqun ha-De‘ot. Ed. G. Vajda (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1973). DEFINITION LITERATURE Tamar Z. Frank, “Al-Kindi’s Book of Definitions” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1975). New translation in Peter Adamson and Peter Pormann, The Philosophical Works of al-Kindī (Oxford, 2012). Isaac Israeli. Kitāb al-ḥudūd. Trans. A. Altmann & S. M. Stern as “The Book of Definitions.” In Isaac Israeli: A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early Tenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1958, pp. 3-78. Avicenna. Kitāb al-ḥudūd (livre des définitions), ed. and French trans. A.M. Goichon, Cairo, 1963. http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/sina/works/hudud.pdf Samuel ibn Tibbon. Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot. [“Explanation of Unusual Terms”]. Ed. Y. Even-Shemuel. In Maimonides, Moreh ha-Nebukim. Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1987. LOGIC: manṭiq, higgayon In general: Glosses and Commentaries on Aristotelian Logical Texts: The Syriac, Arabic and Medieval Latin Traditions. Ed. C. Burnett. London: Warburg Institute, 1993. PORPHYRY’S ISAGOGE: Kitāb al-madkhal, Sefer ha-mavo Jonathan Barnes, Porphyry: Introduction (Oxford, 2006). Porphyry in Arabic: Manṭiq Arisṭū, ed. A. Badawi (Cairo, 1952), vol. 3, pp. 1019-1068. “Al-Fārābī’s Introductory Sections on Logic.” Ed. and trans. D. M. Dunlop, Islamic Quarterly 2 (1955), pp. 264-82. “Al-Fārābī’s Introductory Risālah on Logic.” Ed. and trans. D. M. Dunlop, Islamic Quarterly 3 (1956), pp. 224-35. “Al-Fārābī’s Eisagoge.” Ed. and trans. D. M. Dunlop, Islamic Quarterly 3 (1956), pp. 117-138. Ibn al-Ṭayyib, Commentary on Porphyry’s Eisagoge. Ed. K. Gyekye (Beirut: Dar al- Mashreq, 1975); trans. K. Gyeke as Arabic Logic: Ibn al-Ṭayyib’s Commentary on Porphyry’s Eisagoge (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1979). Avicenna, Kitāb al-shifā’: al-madkhal. Ed. I. Madkour (Cairo, 1952). 5 Averroes, Epitome: Kol melekhet ha-higgayon, Hebrew trans. by Jacob b. Makhir (1288). Riva di Trento, 1560. Averroes, Middle Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge and
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